Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] Line endings in bootstrap.bat on Windows
From: Matt Calabrese (rivorus_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-11-29 14:35:22

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Daniel James <daniel_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> We can get this right by setting the gitattributes files to something
> appropriate and normalizing the repos (most repos are actually fine
> already). But there will be issues with checking out old versions.
> There are a few approaches to fixing this, but Beman isn't keen on
> delaying conversion further. Most people don't use old versions so it
> won't be a big problem, and if they wish to they can use the read only
> subversion repo, or normalise an older version themselves.

+1

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-Matt Calabrese